RWAs complain that mobile vegetable vans are irregular or do not show up at all
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AAA The Tamil Nadu Horticulture Development Agency (TANHODA) has received all round praise for its move to operate vegetable shops from small trucks. However, the complaint from residents’ welfare associations (RWAs) that these trucks bypass their areas are also too loud to be ignored.
On an almost similar note, RWAs believe the Greater Chennai Corporation(GCC) could have brought more mobile vegetable vendors on board.
Complaints of this kind particularly come from RWAs on East Coast Road (ECR) and Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR).
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In commemoration of Earth Day, around 200 residents participated in a tree- planting drive, in Velachery. The initiative brought various residents’ associations of Velachery together, with the support of non-governmental organisations. The residents’ associations are from VGP Selva Nagar, Park Avenue, Annai Indira Nagar, Balakrishna Nagar, Udhayam Nagar, Anna Nagar, Venus Colony, Seshadripuram, and Sarathi Nagar.
Association apartments included Anmol Flats and Ramaniyam Marvel.
The NGOs that supported the exercise by supplying tree saplings are: Exnora International, Nizhal Trust, Kattabomman Friend’s Club, Save Velachery Water Bodies Forum and Green Society Welfare Association.
“We call this campaign ‘Green Velachery’. The saplings were planted along the median of Link Road which runs along Taramani and Perungudi MRTS railway stations; and on the roads around a park at VGP Selva Nagar. The campaign seeks to enhance Velachery’s green